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| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Three men at the University of Wisconsin, with tent and sign that reads "People of Madison! Vets in tent need rooms to rent". |
| Date: | 02 26 1963 |
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| Description: | Four students sit around one flip-top desk to read and work math problems. |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | H.L. Mencken sits at the breakfast table reading the newspaper and dining on toast and a goblet of beer. He autographed the photograph with "Breakfast in t... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Interior view of the Carnegie Library, Richland Center, WI. Two people are seated at a table reading at the far left. A frieze decorates the wall above a d... |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | Library Reading Room as completed in 1901, showing skylights and ceiling fixtures, library tables and lights, and many University of Wisconsin students at ... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Columnist Drew Pearson, who with Robert S. Anderson and later with Jack Anderson, pioneered modern political investigative reporting. Pearson was one of t... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Log cabin known as the "haunted house" on Rock Island, remodeled by Chester Thordarson. There are three people sitting on the porch. |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin students (primarily women) studying in the Historical Society Library Reading Room. On the left is the Visitors Gallery. |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | Thelma Mothershed, one of the Little Rock Nine, reading a book. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Martin and Eva Lauffer Deutschkron in a Berlin apartment shared with his parents. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Otto G. Ansorge sits in his home on Lake Avenue and reads. Ansorge was a jeweler and band director in Winneconne. |
| Date: | 11 1970 |
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| Description: | A poster advertising a poetry reading in the Old Madison room in the Memorial Union on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. The poet is Cid Corman, ... |
| Date: | 01 24 1944 |
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| Description: | Autographed photograph of Chauncey "The Bear Hunter" Bottum reading a magazine called Traveler. The autograph is for Governor Goodland, and reads "B... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Several young men, probably students, are seated side by side on a couch reading books. The caption beneath the image reads "Reading--A Good Form of Recrea... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | "The Reader," an illustration of a woman reading while seated at a lace-covered sewing machine cabinet. The illustration was part of "The Universal Sewing ... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Girls at camp read around the fire at Camp St. Helene with the Franciscan missionaries of Mary. A forty-eight star flag, plants, and a religious statue can... |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Paul Robeson reading a copy of the leftist newspaper, the "National Guardian". |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | View of the Wisconsin Historical Society Library Reading Room with people studying at tables. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View of the reading room of the First Church of Christ Scientist, built in 1903. A man and a woman are sitting at a table surrounded by chairs and wooden b... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A view of three men sitting outdoors and reading on the Senior Bench at the University of Illinois. The seat is made of stone and "1900" is engraved into i... |
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